Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.

Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.

Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.

Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.

To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach.

Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.

America may be the only society on earth to have experienced what has been called an 'epidemic of children killing children,' which is ravaging some of its communities today.

Sitting too long in front of a screen proves both physically and psychologically debilitating, no matter how innocuous or even beneficial the programs may be.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

Medicine is aptly described as an art, not a science. To this end, four different doctors may have up to four different diagnoses or prescriptions.

He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.

Whether you're a believer or not, I think there's a huge value in understanding the quality of redemption.

Because to me, there is no logic of any kind behind misogyny. Therefore, it’s funny, because it’s so completely random to me. It’s senseless.

I've always been a big proponent of not working for the sake of working, because I don't want to work for the rest of my life - I want to live.

Sin endeavors to subject the blessed God to the humor and lust of every person in the world

Most people think that God wants us to demonstrate our love for God by having churches and by having symbols - and I think that's a huge error.